Chapter 37 2. Fierce battles in the air compose a grand song in the sky

After the capture of Lime Island and Ai Island, the remnants of bandits were concentrated in Dahe Island and Xiaohe Island, 20 kilometers south of the Tieshan Peninsula. Every night, two warships came from Bailing Island to the southeast of Yamato Island and shot at Lime Island. , and leave. After intense battle preparations, the 50th Army decided to capture Da and Xiaohe Islands on the night of November 30.In order to clear the periphery, at 23:15 on November 29, the 10th Division of the Air Force dispatched ten Tu-2 bombers for the first time at night, adopting a single-plane continuous follow-up formation, and the method of throwing flares from the front plane to illuminate the rear plane. U.S. and South Korean warships in the waters off the Da and Xiaohe islands carried out bombing.However, due to lack of experience, the bombing failed to hit the target, and only scared away a few American and South Korean ships operating there.

On the afternoon of the 30th, the 50th Army made preparations for crossing the sea and launched an attack as long as the Air Force took action. At 14:19:30 on the same day, Gao Yueming, captain of the 1st Battalion of the 24th Regiment of the 8th Division, led nine Tu-2 bombers to take off and set sail via Fengji Fort.Due to 30 seconds earlier than the scheduled time, and the leading aircraft turned too early during the formation assembly process, etc., the result arrived at the scheduled rendezvous point 5 minutes earlier than the scheduled time, and it was not until the south of Fengcheng that the 2nd Division, who served as the direct escort, arrived. Sixteen La-11 fighters of the 4th Regiment assembled. At 15:07, the mixed fleet arrived in the designated airspace 4 minutes earlier than originally planned.But at this time, the MiG-15 fighter jets of the 3rd Division were still flying over Shenmi Island as originally planned, and could not play the role of support and cover. The situation was not good for me.

Sure enough, something I didn't want to see happened.When the joint fleet passed Longyanpu and just flew into the air above the sea, it was suddenly attacked by more than 30 F-86 fighter jets of the US Air Force. The wingmen Song Fengsheng and Liang Zhijian of the 3rd Squadron of the bomber formation were shot down immediately. "Move forward resolutely and complete the mission!" At an emergency, an order from Wu Kai, commander of the 8th Division, the ground commander, came. "When two armies meet, the brave wins."Under the leadership of the captain, Gao Yueming, the joint aircraft group organized firepower to counterattack the US aircraft, and at the same time broke through the obstacles and bravely flew towards the target.

The enemy planes formed a strong fire net from front, back, left and right and attacked our bomber fleet.Our bombers did not show weakness. The shooters and communicators of each aircraft fired at the US aircraft, and used the aircraft cannons to form a firepower network to vigorously counterattack.During the fierce battle, the two engines of the right wingman of No. 2 Squadron were hit and caught fire one after another. Fire and thick smoke entered the cockpit. Zhang Fuyan's crew stubbornly drove the plane to keep up with the formation, and finally lost control of the plane and fell into the sea, dying a heroic death.

The enemy formation focused on attacking the 3rd Squadron behind the tail of our bomber.Squadron leader Xing Gaoke, in order to attract the enemy and support the front crew to complete the task, he drove the plane up and down, right and left, circling with the enemy plane.Suddenly, the rear hatch of Xing Gaoke's plane was smashed to pieces by an enemy plane.The shooting commander Wu Lianggong was seriously injured, and the hatch cover fragments flew to the head and face of the communication chief Liu Shaoji, blood was flowing, and the cold wind rushed into the rear cabin, tearing Liu Shaoji's bleeding wound, and he took it from Wu Lianggong's hand desperately. The cannon continued to shoot at the enemy plane.He steadied himself, caught an enemy plane in front of him, and quickly turned the cannon. When he was 450 meters away from the enemy, he fired a burst of fire, causing the enemy plane to turn around several times and try to escape.Liu Shaoji was desperate, seized the opportunity, and fired again. With a "boom", an F-86 exploded in the air.

Liu Shaoji created a precedent in the history of air combat with a piston bomber to shoot down a jet fighter! While the bombers fought tenaciously against the ferocious attacks of the U.S. planes again and again, the La-11 fighter planes directly escorting them also engaged in fierce air battles.The attack team located behind the bomber formation and the direct cover team located on both sides of the bomber formation, within a range of 1,000 meters around the bomber formation, fought with the U.S. planes while covering the advance of the bombers until the bombers reached the target.They used the flexible turning performance of the piston fighter and the strong firepower of the three guns to bravely confront the jet fighters of the US Air Force, which had a great advantage in performance.

After a fierce air battle, at 18:30 on the 30th, the 3rd Battalion and the 1st Battalion of the 422nd Regiment of the 50th Army were responsible for the task of capturing Da and Xiaohe Islands. Chen Ping led 30 landing ships, 7 artillery ships, and 3 ambulance ships. They set sail from the port of Dengchuandong at the same time, and attacked Da and Xiaohe islands respectively. At 22:05, the two companies of the 1st Battalion led by the deputy head of the regiment, Chen Ping, under the cover of artillery fire from the Shore Field Howitzer Battalion and Lime Island Field Artillery Company, first landed in the northwest of Xiaohe Island and searched the island. run away. At 22:10, the 3rd Battalion led by regiment leader Zhao Yuwen, under the cover of artillery fire from accompanying fireships, forcibly landed on the front line of Longwei at the northern end of Yamato Island and the southwest lighthouse, and then started a deep battle with the enemy. Insert the Yamato Cave, intercept the enemy's escape route ferry, and immediately capture a part of the enemy on board in an attempt to escape from the enemy. At 22:50, I occupied all of Yamato Island and continued to search for the defeated enemy.At the end of the battle, a total of 249 enemies were wiped out.

From November 5th to December 1st, the 50th Army of the Volunteer Army conducted four consecutive sea-crossing and island attack operations on the coastal islands between the mouth of the Yalu River and the mouth of the Qingchuan River.With the cooperation of the air force, 14 islands including Lime Island, Ai Island, Tan Island, Size and Island, Size and Gaci Island, Niuli Island, and Yunwu Island were captured successively, and a total of 570 armed bandits were wiped out.This attack on the island was the only joint land-air operation in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea. The subsequent joint operations of the People's Liberation Army were of great significance.